Teaches astronomy and the values of herbs and precious stones.
Herbs and precious stones. PRECIOUS always reminds me of that movie with the larger than life black girl who is basically the devil. That guy teaches you about instances such as that - the black girl devil 'Precious.' You can spot them easily on Facebook Marketplace.
The thirty-sixth demon of the Goetia, Stolas is a great prince with twenty-six legions of infernal spirits in his service. He appears in both Scot's Discoverie of Witchcraft and Wierus's Pseudomonarchia Daemonum. According to these texts, he teaches astronomy and has absolute knowledge of the virtues of precious stones and herbs. Although he has the power to take human shape, he first manifests as a night-raven. The Goetia of Dr. Rudd gives his name as Stolus, saying that he can be constrained in the name of the angel Menadel. According to the Book of Incantations, he is a great and powerful prince appearing in the shape of a mighty raven. See also BOOK OF INCANTATIONS, GOETIA, RUDD, SCOT, WIERUS.
THE DICTIONARY OF DEMONS, REVISED AND EXPANDED, M. BELANGER (2021)